Hope. Prayer. May the citizens of the United States of America find that collectively, with enough state by state majorities, they must vote for the competent choice of Kamala Harris ( Read more... )

Bluebirds are fledging, we found out as any household member outside got dive bombed by bluebirds. Carrie and Marlowe were kept in while the birds seemed on the offence in the back, just in case. I saw flutterings out the front window, watched Christine go out and get bombed, and watched the fluttering go towards the garden -- and then get caught ( Read more... )

Testing post by mail via TO both LJ & DW. Now testing the cut tag.

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I have a new mastodon account for my professional life in identity management. The only reason i bothered is because i wandered into it after reading a newsletter and wandering into details.... Under the weather mental meandering. I chose https://federate.social/about (and my usual ( Read more... )

Perhaps not a great cutting-off, per BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60661987

Russia itself has been experimenting with a sovereign internet - dubbed Runet - for several years, albeit one that has been retro-fitted to the existing internet rather than China's built ( Read more... )

Checks LiveJournal. Yup, not crossposting. Thanks to Dreamwidth's "yourlibrarian" for the heads-up ( Read more... )

Monday night and yesterday a small swirl of uncertainties with Grandmámá, who had stayed in bed and not eaten all Tuesday, but did rally yesterday. ( Swirl )

What is the 354 tag, you may wonder. Once upon a time i was having a particularly frustrating turn with Things Going Wrong. Only the machinations of an archnemisis could explain so much frustration -- at least, only an archnemisis would create an amusement in dealing with the frustrations. What then, would be the name of such an archnemisis? ( Read more... )

How did i ever get through the day? Especially when more people were writing here? I keep being surprised by finding entries i missed reading when i thought i read. I feel like my "morning quick tasks" and catch up reading take ALL MORNING ( Read more... )

For the first time in months -- February or so -- i have gone through my "ticklers," tags i put on Evernote entries to either indicate i should throw them away at that point (easy) or consider them at that point (oof). The tags are for the first or fifteenth of a specific month, so loosely it's intended to be an every two week exercise. Past ( Read more... )